London Bridge is Burning down…

Bombing London on such a joyous day, I was going to blog about the great news of London winning the Olympic bid for 2012, beating the stinky garlic munching hairy arm-pitted frogs of gay paris by 4 votes..

Injured people, bloody and covered in soot were seen coming out of the tube stations..

We always said if they hit, they’ll hit the underground…I didn’t except the buses too..

A group calling itself “The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe” posted a claim of responsibility for the blasts, saying they were in retaliation for Britain’s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Web statement, republished on the site of the German magazine Der Spiegel, could not be immediately confirmed.

The full statement:

In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate, may peace be upon the cheerful one and undaunted fighter, Prophet Muhammad, God’s peace be upon him.

Nation of Islam and Arab nation: Rejoice for it is time to take revenge against the British Zionist Crusader government in retaliation for the massacres Britain is committing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters.

We have repeatedly warned the British Government and people. We have fulfilled our promise and carried out our blessed military raid in Britain after our mujahideen exerted strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure the success of the raid.

We continue to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy and all the Crusader governments that they will be punished in the same way if they do not withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. He who warns is excused.

God says: “You who believe: If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly.”

24 Responses to London Bridge is Burning down…

A typical London double decker can ferry more than a hundred passengers at any one time, so I would put the estimate at below 200. No point speculating though. 1 dead or 1000 dead it is still a sad day for London.

this is terrible. horrible. terrible. make me sick to the stomach too. how can people do such a thing? killing innocent people. targetting the public transport is so vile. a bit like targetting hospitals and schools.

i hope the attackers would rot in he_ _ …. no, i hope the attackers would find peace in their heart… will they?

I am currently in London and listening to live BBC news. The whole transportation system is crippled and lots of interviews and sessions going on here. Will update when I can.

Tube lines that got hit are: Piccadilly line, Circle Line, maybe more but still to be confirmed.

As confirmed, all mobile networks are jammed and hardly you can get calls through, unless using landlines(even that had problems to connect). If you have any relatives in central London, please try to sms them or msg them on the net instead of calling them.

BBC just confirmed as of 4pm BST 33 dead and 45 critical. Next press conference by TFL(transport for london) and Metropolitan Police will be tomorrow only, since they just finished one.

The main point is that when the first few explosions happened, TFL suspended the whole underground(tube) system. Hence, the only way people can get around is with bus. Anyone of you in London last time when they had the tube strikes would realised how packed buses are when it is the only means of transportation in central London. Packed sardines they are, to the slaughter.

Forensics are still determining whether it is done by suicide bombers or packages left behind.

Urgh about the bombing. It’s good to hear your family’s safe. Family always comes first. I have family in Kent, which is quite off, but it was still a scare. It’s always unpleasant to hear about shocking events such as this. Hope everyone holds strong.

My (Malaysian) wife and in-laws are currently in London, whilst I, an ex-pat Brit have to sit and watch BBC 24 as this horror unfolds. They are all OK, but I guess it is not going to be much of a holiday for them now.
Meanwhile, well meaning relatives here are assuring me that this is not an act that is indicative of Islam.
Well, of course it isn’t. But also it is (presumably) the act of fanatics that believe that a historic book of superstition can be used to “justify” such actions.
There are political motives as well, but this renewed growth of religious terrorism in the 21st century? We are still not a terribly evolved species 🙁
It’s 5 in the morning, I’m very tired, I won’t even start to rant about religion (on someone elses blog 😉 but hope all those here remain unaffected by this tragedy.

I am no pro-Muslim fan but the excessive use of Allah for every single atrocity committed is pissing me off. Do not use religion as a political propaganda and do not justify your horrid deeds in the name of God! Despicable!

It’s really sickening, the use of religion for terrorist purposes just gives the whole thing a bad name…

But then that’s the fundamental problem with religion, they were created in a vague manner to enable the ‘leaders’ to control the people with whatever was relevant at the time, intepreting the religious texts in the most appropriate way..

Faith by it’s very nature requires the suspension of critical thought. Critical thought is the evolutionary trait that has proved to give the greatest advances in knowledge and material progress. Faith has proved itself to be a reductive instinct, based on fear and desire for political control, that causes great suffering, perverts progress, and crucially removes the self-determination of the human race in favour of a man-made, irrational at best and manipulable at worst, construct.
What gods we could all be if we didn’t believe in gods? 😉 Perhaps then we would become ” noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!”.
Until then, we bomb our fellow human beings, we invade other countries for greed, and we tell those devastated by natural disasters that god willed it or even that they brought it upon themselves through their “wickedness” – and *that* is evil!
Sorry to rant on yr blog page, ShaolinTiger, but it happened to be the first that I read when trawling last night 😉 I see that you have a realistic attitude to religion – how do you manage in Malaysia? ;))
Have a nice day 🙂